{"id":5159,"date":"2014-11-05T11:21:17","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T19:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5159"},"modified":"2014-11-10T18:47:51","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T02:47:51","slug":"missions-catalyst-news-briefs-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5159","title":{"rendered":"Missions Catalyst News Briefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In This Issue: Responses to intolerance and persecution<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol dir=\"auto\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5157\">SUDAN: Air Force Bombs Church Complex in Nuba Mountains<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5155\">INDIA: Christian Man Forced to Separate from Hindu Wife<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5152\">NEPAL: Prime Minister Pledges Religious Freedom<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5150\">UZBEKISTAN: Christian Home Raided<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5148\">VIETNAM:\u00a0Evangelist Seeks to Extend Gospel to Unreached Tribes<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong dir=\"auto\">Dear readers,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This edition of Missions Catalyst falls between the two Sundays (November 2 and 9) designated as the <a href=\"http:\/\/idop.org\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/idop.org\/en\/\">International Day(s) of Prayer for the Persecuted Church<\/a>. You can find all the resources you might need from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opendoorsusa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.opendoorsusa.org\/\">Open Doors<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.persecution.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.persecution.com\/\">Voice of the Martyrs<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldea.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.worldea.org\/\">World Evangelical Alliance<\/a>. But I thought I\u2019d also pass on some other types of religious intolerance stories.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty is representing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.becketfund.org\/muslim-prisoners-battle-beard-will-one-supreme-courts-next-big-religious-liberty-cases\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.becketfund.org\/muslim-prisoners-battle-beard-will-one-supreme-courts-next-big-religious-liberty-cases\/\">a Muslim prisoner\u2019s right to express his faith by growing a beard<\/a>, while the Saudi police arrest a woman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aina.org\/news\/20141104145606.htm\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.aina.org\/news\/20141104145606.htm\">for questioning the length of Mohammed\u2019s beard.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>We rejoice that Muslim majority <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mnnonline.org\/news\/turkey-start-christian-curriculum-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.mnnonline.org\/news\/turkey-start-christian-curriculum-schools\/\">Turkey has agreed to offer a Christian curriculum<\/a>, but do Satanists in Florida have the right to insist that kids have the option of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/satanic.colouring.book.under.consideration.in.florida.school.district\/42532.htm\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/satanic.colouring.book.under.consideration.in.florida.school.district\/42532.htm\">Satanic coloring book<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/church.of.england.schools.to.promote.tolerance.for.other.faiths.and.lifestyles\/42547.htm\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/church.of.england.schools.to.promote.tolerance.for.other.faiths.and.lifestyles\/42547.htm\">England has pledged<\/a> more tolerance in their education system, while Gujarat, India, has its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/features\/2014\/11\/hindu-right-ideology-indian-textbooks-gujarat-20141147028501733.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/features\/2014\/11\/hindu-right-ideology-indian-textbooks-gujarat-20141147028501733.html\">textbooks rewritten<\/a> by the Hindu right.<\/li>\n<li>While the US grapples with same sex marriage, many in the majority world are insisting on same-faith marriages\u00a0(see India story below).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Surely intolerance is not always persecution. But once we decide something is an act of persecution, how do we respond? Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/morningstarnews.org\/2014\/11\/how-to-read-a-persecution-news-story\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/morningstarnews.org\/2014\/11\/how-to-read-a-persecution-news-story\/\">How to Read a Persecution News Story<\/a> (Morning Star News) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.persecution.com\/public\/pray.aspx?articleonprayer_ID=%3d3238\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.persecution.com\/public\/pray.aspx?articleonprayer_ID=%3d3238\">Prayer: Taking Sides<\/a> (Voice of the Martyrs).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Standing with you,<br \/>\nPat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Pat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Pat.jpg\" alt=\"Pat\" width=\"139\" height=\"191\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pat Noble has been the \u201cnews sleuth\u201d for Missions Catalyst since 2004. In addition to churning out the news, she is working to create a SWARM (Serving World A Regional Mobilizers) in Northern New York using the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernchristian.org\">NorthernChristian.org<\/a> website. You can connect with her at <a href=\"http:\/\/whatsoeverthings.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.whatsoeverthings.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In This Issue: Responses to intolerance and persecution SUDAN: Air Force Bombs Church Complex in Nuba Mountains INDIA: Christian Man Forced to Separate from Hindu Wife NEPAL: Prime Minister Pledges Religious Freedom UZBEKISTAN: Christian Home Raided VIETNAM:\u00a0Evangelist Seeks to Extend Gospel to Unreached Tribes Dear readers, This edition of Missions Catalyst falls between the two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5159\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Missions Catalyst News Briefs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5159"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5174,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5159\/revisions\/5174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}